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An exhibition of photographs by Ian Berry (Magnum) to mark 60 years of the UN Refugee Convention, commissioned by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

Photographer Ian Berry is known worldwide for his arresting, evocative photos - and as a member of the celebrated cooperative, Magnum Photos. Magnum was formed following the Second World War by pioneers of photo-journalism including Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson. Today its photographers continue to chronicle the world and its people, with a powerful, individual vision.

To mark the 60th anniversary of the UN Refugee Convention the UN High Commissioner for Refugees has partnered with Ian Berry and Magnum to produce this exciting exhibition. Berry has photographed refugees around the UK who came to the UK seeking safety since the 1950s. The exhibition will be launched on Thursday 2 June at 6pm.

The Northern Review

Exploring human experience in the North

Call for Papers

Special Issue: Tourism and Travel in the Circumpolar North

The last two decades have seen an increased interest and capacity for tourism in the North. “Selling the North” for tourism has meant highlighting its vast space, its pristine wilderness, its exotic northern lifestyles and its Indigenous people. Tourism contributes to a variety of mandates for communities and governments including cultural revitalization and economic diversification and development. However, alongside the many opportunities tourism offers to visitors, to northern people, their communities, and their governments, tourism also presents numerous challenges. Negotiating the positive aspects of tourism with the potential negative impacts has been discussed for at least the last two decades (Butler, 1990), including perspectives specific to peripheral and circumpolar regions (Brown & Hall, 2000; Dawson, Maher, & Slocombe, 2007; Hall & Boyd, 2005; Hall & Saarinen, 2010; Krakover & Gradus, 2002; Müller & Jansson, 2007; Sahlberg, 2001). Notwithstanding the value gained by continued attention aimed at mitigating tourism’s negative impacts, arguably the lure of the North and its positive effects on people, as well as tourism’s ability to contribute to communities and regions in constructive ways, requires that scholarly attention continue to be paid.

The Northern Review is interested in receiving articles that examine issues and present discussions about tourism and travel in the Circumpolar North, including but not limited to how tourism engages with:

§Economic, regional, community, and sustainable development

§Business, entrepreneurial and product development

§Place-based and other planning approaches

§Identity (e.g., place making, tourism marketing)

§Climate change

§Northern and Indigenous cultures and communities

§The social economy and creative economies

§Gender

§Methodological innovation and experience

Manuscripts received before midnight August 15, 2011 will be considered for publication in Number 36 (Spring 2012). Send submissions or queries to Guest Editor Suzanne de la Barre, PhD care of managing editor, Deanna McLeod,dmcleod@yukoncollege.yk.ca. Please visit the website www.yukoncollege.yk.ca/review for submission guidelines.

About the Northern Review

The journal does not generally include within its mandate the publication of purely scientific studies, unless they are placed in a human context. The journal endeavours to provide solid, North-centred scholarship, engaged with issues of significant concern to the people of Arctic and Subarctic regions. The material included in the journal ranges widely, from issues of social policy and northern politics to questions of Indigenous cultures in transition and the historical experience of newcomers.

Over the past few years, the journal has reached beyond northern Canada to include contributions from Alaska and Europe and from disciplines that have not previously been represented in the pages of the journal. The North has changed dramatically since theNorthern Review was founded in 1988, and international and circumpolar dialogue has expanded rapidly. One of the best features of northern scholarship is that it reaches so readily across national and disciplinary boundaries.

Palaeophonics concert is an AHRC-funded research-based multimediaevent which explores music and sound production since early humanorigins in creative and scientific ways. Partly funded by AHRC 'BeyondText' and by the University of Edinburgh Campaign, this unique eventpremieres eight new works by composers, film-makers andarchaeologists/anthropologists from across Europe and the Americas. Itwill be followed by a discussion and future developments workshop onthe 28th May.

BOOK ON-LINE HERE: http://palaeophonics.eventbrite.com/ with thediscount code "NUOESS001" and get tickets for ONLY £2:50 for studentsand £4:25 for staff (50% OFF!). THIS OFFER IS EXCLUSIVE TO UKUNIVERSITY STUDENTS AND STAFF UNTIL FRIDAY 13TH MAY ONLY. Bookingon-line is easy and you can print your tickets instantly.

Palaeophonics is an international and interdisciplinary collaborativeproject with various research and creative components, of which theconcert in Edinburgh on the 27th May will be it's first major publicevent.

Contributing works to the concert include world premiere ofBritish-Austrian film-maker Fredrick Baker's film "Pitoti" on the'sound stages' of Valcamonica rock-art site in Alpine Italy withspoken word by Christopher Chippindale; film from Orkney by AaronWatson with music composition by John Was; 3D animated sound fieldmodel and composition "Stonehenge Ritual Sound" by Rupert Till andAndrew Taylor; and composition "Unnamed" for solo flute by Mexicancomposer Mauricio Rodriguez, created by Mexican soloist WilfridoTarrazas.

A free workshop will take place on Saturday 28th May for researchersand artists to discuss outcomes and future directions ofPalaeophonics. If you are interested in attending or participating orif you require help or advise concerning travel and accommodation,please do no hesitate to email Farès Moussa at F.K.Moussa@sms.ed.ac.uk

Hi Poppy, glad to see someone from GU joining in! don't forget to join the mailing list (detailsin the email forwarded by Robert). Hope to see you and others from glasgow at the 27th-28th May event in Edinburgh

Drawing on your expressed interests and your preferred availabilities, we've managed to knock together a wee reprise of STAR for later this month, Friday-Saturday the 27th-28th May. Read on for what's planned and the logistics involved....

Before we head into our deserved summer break, there is a small 20.000 word inconvenience, also known as a thesis. Chrissie's boyfriend Len, who is finishing his PhD in the English department at Edinburgh, has offered to lead a workshop on essay composition. There will be some talking about writing, and a lot more practical examples of how to hone your writing skills. He's also promised a handout containing the elements of style.

BUILDING A COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE - NEXT STEPS2pm-5pm, 27th May 2011 (with option of continuance into 28th May, as necessary)Seminar Room 4, Chrystal Macmillan Building (15a George Square)

An afternoon session to start the ball rolling on some of the 'community of practice' initiatives identified during the STAR retreat (including student-led STAR orientation workshops in September, skills workshops, guest speakers and panels, and future publishing or conference opportunities). Intended to build consensus and commitment around priority projects, with a sufficient level of logistical detail to generate a funding proposal to the soon-to-be-operational Doctoral Training Commission. We'll also identify what we can/want to do in the immediate short-term prior to funding availability.

And as your hosts, the Edinburgh crew will endeavour to concoct some suitably entertaining social event for the evening of Friday the 27th!

**Logistics

We've set the writing workshop to start late on the Friday to give everyone coming from out of town sufficient time to make it to Edinburgh. Currently we have five-six beds available for people who need a place to crash on the Thursday and/or Friday nights; if you have space available, or if you need a place to stay, please let me know and we'll sort you out. Food and transport will be up to us individually this time round, unfortunately!

**RSVPs

Please zip along a quick email (by the 20th if possible!) to let us know which sessions you'd like to attend, so we have a sense of numbers and can make sure we have enough of everything we need. And do let us know if you're unlikely to attend, so we needn't flood your inbox with follow-up messages! Also, if you're not much fussed about either of the sessions but would just like to come along for a good Friday out in Edinburgh, you're more than welcome!

**JISCmail

Also, I hope you've all seen Seb's email regarding the JISC mailing list. Please do sign up as soon as you can so we can start sending out info of this sort via that medium!

Look forward to hearing from you, and to seeing you all on the 27th-28th May!!Best,Koreen

Just a quick reminder that the final day for submitting a paper for the panel below is tomorrow, the 29th of April. We are seeking contributions for our panel at the ASA in Lampeter this year - at University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, 13th-16th Sept 2011). Details follow below.

Don't hesitate to get in touch with Rachel ( r.j.harkness@ed.ac.uk) or Jen (jenevive@gmail.com) with any queries or clarifications.

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"By leaves we live": the vital politics and poetics of the tree

Inspired by the idea that "by leaves we live" (Patrick Geddes) and by art, poetry, philosophy, forestry and political activism, we invite creative responses that consider the vital poetics and politics of the tree and it's social forms and associations, from a variety of approaches and contexts.